Season 1 Recap (Spoilers Ahoy!)

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Here's a better cast photo. Left to right:
Adama, Roslin, Lee, Tigh, Starbuck, Tyrol, Boomer, Baltar, Model Six.


The first season is tough to sum up.

No it isn't!

+ Baltar is slowly going nuts, hounded by visions of the sexy Cylon (known as 'Six') whom he left back on Caprica (or ARE they visions?!!? dum-dum-DUM!!!!). He has been tasked with developing a method of discovering Cylons among the survivors. He also gets elected vice president and has sex with himself a lot. It's a long way from the 70's, isn't it?

+ Starbuck displays her ability to be a loser as well as survive as she manages to hotwire a Cylon fighter to escape from a planet she is forced to crash-land on. She then uses said fighter later on to jump back to Caprica to find something for President Roslin. Isn't that desertion, there, Kara?

+ Lee has a stick up his ass.

+ Commander Adama displays why he was put in command of an out-of-date starship by risking everyone while looking for Starbuck who crash-landed on a hostile planet.

+ Colonel Tigh drinks too much, finds his ex-wife among the survivors, then drinks too much. He snaps at Starbuck occasionally as well.

+ President Roslin, who has breast cancer, is slowly dying, and she thinks she has visions of Earth and is the Chosen One from some old prophecies. She gets in deep doo-doo with Adama after the Galactica fleet finds their home planet, Kobol.

+ Poor Boomer the Cylon keeps doing bad things but doesn't remember them. At least not until she a) blows up a Cylon base then b) shoots Commander Adama in the stomach. She's so confused!

+ So is Helo who is stuck on an irridated Caprica after he let Baltar have his place in a cargo ship (piloted by the Boomer Cylon). He hooks up with his very own copy of the Boomer Cylon. He doesn't *know* she's a Cylon and eventually they do the Naked Pretzel and his Cylon gets pregnant.

+ The Boomer Cylon aboard the Galactica, who is confused, is dating the flight deck chief (Tyrol - no callsign for him because he's just a tool-pushin' knuckle dragger) but they break up over the confusion (and orders from meany-head Colonel Tigh). Are you confused yet? Gods, _they_ are!

I think that hit all the major points of series 1. Did I mention Apollo (Lee Adama) has a stick up his ass? He got really steamed when Starbuck had sex with Baltar. Did I mention it's a long way from the 70's?